Elizabeth Derby

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ARTS Pick: concorDance

Crozet-based contemporary dance company concorDance presents Tripping the Light Fantastic, a concert of playful...

Arts Pick

Embrace the last of the lazy August days with the Summer Camp Series at the Packard Campus Theater in Culpeper. Ten...

Heritage Theatre Festival’s Red depicts an artist in turmoil

The year is 1958, and abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko sits in a chair in his New York studio, smoking a...

Live Arts hits home and heart

Beverly Weston, aging poet and professor, sits among overstuffed bookshelves and reflects on the sum of his life: a...

We cannot live without books

Of the festival’s myriad non-fiction topics, one of the hottest will be Thomas Jefferson. This is Charlottesville,...

Good buzz

Onstage, a fine-featured woman removes her skirt, collapses her bustle, and adjusts the corset nipping her waist. Her...

Finding Common Ground for everyone at the new Jefferson...

On January 1, one week before the Jefferson School City Center opened, I stood in front of the building’s main doors...

On the clock

“24/7 (2013) flips the paradigm,” Ray Nedzel said, noting that actors and writers typically audition and submit...

Local Catholic couple runs Casa Alma, a refuge for those...

Many people dedicate their holidays to giving, but one Charlottesville family has built a life around it. Laura and...

ARTS Pick

Storytellers, musicians and world culture enthusiasts weave myths and epic folklore using African drums, Australian...